Hannah Peel – Archid Orange Dwarf (Track Premiere)

Northern Irish artist and electronic composer, Hannah Peel, is set to release her third long player this September – Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia via My Own Pleasure – with accompanying artwork by Grammy Award-winning designer Jonathan Barnbrook, who designed the artwork for David Bowie’s The Next Day and Blackstar albums.

Mary Casio… is a seven-movement odyssey which explores one person's journey to outer space, by recounting the story of an unknown, elderly, pioneering, electronic musical stargazer and her lifelong dream to leave her terraced home in the mining town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to see Cassiopeia for herself. Composed for analogue synthesizers and full, traditional 29-piece colliery brass band, the complete brass band and rhythm section was recorded live on location in The Barnsley Civic Theatre with Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio team.

Ahead of the album’s release on 22 Sep, The Skinny are delighted to be premiering Archid Orange Dwarf, which you can listen to in the player below. Of the track, Peel tells us: “AOD nears the end of the album and Mary Casio’s journey to where she thinks is Cassiopeia. After pushing through the emptiness and solitude of space, I wanted us to enjoy hearing the liberations of leaving Earth. Repetitive motifs and cellular phrases let the parts weave and play amongst one another.

“The exciting gradual transformation of the piece builds, sways together and eventually falls away, like moving in endless circles echoing life itself. I wanted to feel like the limited notes used were like our limited life span on Earth, yet as you look back at Earth from outer space – you can see it all vibrantly working and changing as one.”

Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia is released on 22 Sep via My Own Pleasure. Pre-order the album here